Word: hokkaido
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earthquake was the latest episode in the earth crust movement which ages ago pushed up the mountainous ridge of Japan. The active earthquake zone hugs the eastern shores of the islands from southernmost Kyushu to Hokkaido in the north. The part near the latest quake shows major activity every century...
...Less tactful were MacArthur's occupational forces on Hokkaido, who were reported last week to have told striking Japanese miners to get back to work or "we'll get the Russians in, and they'll make you return to the mines...
...commercial U.S. planes have yet tested the "over the roof" route from the U.S. to Japan. Last week, three U.S. Army B-29s did it for them, made it look ridiculously easy. The planes took off from an airfield on the island of Hokkaido, some 500 miles north of Tokyo, and headed for Washington, D.C. Heavily loaded with 10,000 gallons of gasoline apiece, they hoped to make the trip in one hop. As they swept past Kamchatka, Russian fliers did acrobatics around them. Over Fairbanks, Alaska, when the outside temperature fell to 20 below, the crews idled about...
Perhaps even the inscrutable Buddhas among the temple cedars of Hokkaido lifted their eyebrows for a moment last week to see so many up-to-the-minute copies of TIME circulating freely in Japan...
Last week "Jimmie" Devereux, rescued at long last from a Jap prison on Hokkaido Island, anxiously sought to set his record straight. He had never asked for more Japs. Said he, dryly: "We had more than we could handle right then and there...